The Dial

The Dial. Ed. Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co., 1840-1844. 4 vols.

Edited by prominent members of the Transcendentalist movement, the title of the journal was suggested by A. Bronson Alcott, to evoke a sundial. The journal was intended as a vehicle for the publication of Transcendentalist writings that were refused by other prominent journals. The scope was general and the mission was to influence the thinking of a generation on all important issues, especially those relating to reform. Of particular interest  in regards to ethical veganism are descriptions of the origins of Fruitlands, the discussions by Emerson and Henry David Thoreau on the "English reformers" based on texts sent by Alcott during his visit with the Ham Concordium, and reflections on the dietary reforms promoted by Sylvester Graham.

The journal ceased publication as a Transcendentalist journal in April 1844 but it was revived as The Dial: A Monthly Index and Review of Current Literature, from 1880 to 1919; it served as a vehicle for all the prominent Anglo-American Modernist writers (1920-1929); and it was revived again in January 2023. An exhaustive record of issues of The Dial can be found at: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=thedial

 

Vol. I no. 1-4 (1841)

https://archive.org/details/dial01riplgoog/page/n6/mode/2up

 

Vol. II no. 1-4 (1842)

https://archive.org/details/dial00riplgoog/page/n7/mode/2up

 

Vol. III no. 1-4 (1843)

https://archive.org/details/dial02riplgoog/page/n3/mode/2up

 

Vol. IV no. 1-4 (1844)

https://archive.org/details/dial03riplgoog/page/n5/mode/2up

 

 

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